OAKLAND, Calif. — The thing about a nearly empty stadium is that it can still be loud in different ways.
Instead of a lingering din that drowns out the individual voices, it turns words into a cacophony.
So on Wednesday night at the Oakland Coliseum with a crowd of less than 1,000 people dispersed around the decaying concrete structure, the displeasure of the Mariners fans, the majority in the minimal crowd, could be heard quite clearly in the stadium and on the broadcast
